Identifying Architectural Technical Debt in Android Applications - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Roberto Verdecchia

Gothenburg, 27 May 2018

roberto.verdecchia@gssi.it

Identifying Architectural Technical Debt in Android Applications through Automated Compliance Checking

1 “A Systematic Literature Review and a Unified Model of ATD.” IEEE, 2016, pp. 189-197. T. Besker, A. Martini, and J. Bosch 2 “Architectural Debt Management in Value-Oriented Architecting”. 2014. In Economics-Driven Software Architecture, pp. 183-204.

• Z. Li, P. Liang, and P. Avgeriou.
• Sub-optimal decisions resulting in immature architectural

artifacts1

• Hinders maintainability and evolvability
• ATD identification: detecting ATD during or after

architecting processes2

• To date, few approaches consider Android specific ATD

Architectural Technical Debt (ATD)

“How can we identify automatically Architectural Technical Debt specific to Android applications?”

Research question

Approach overview

• Extraction of Android

architectural guidelines

Approach overview

• Extraction of Android

architectural guidelines

• Establishment of Android

reference architecture

Approach overview

• Extraction of Android

architectural guidelines

• Establishment of Android

reference architecture

• Reverse engineering of

implemented architecture

Approach overview

• Extraction of Android

architectural guidelines

• Establishment of Android

reference architecture

• Reverse engineering of

implemented architecture

• Compliance checking

Approach overview

Approach overview

• Extraction of Android

architectural guidelines

• Establishment of Android

reference architecture

• Reverse engineering of

implemented architecture

• Compliance checking
• Quantitative assessment of

compliance violations

See you at the poster!

Roberto Verdecchia

Gothenburg, 27 May 2018

roberto.verdecchia@gssi.it

Identifying Architectural Technical Debt in Android Applications through Automated Compliance Checking